Legal Sourcing & Analytics Manager

Shell; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

What’s the role

The Legal Sourcing team is essential for transforming operational performance and optimizing our finite resources with a focus on value and cost. The Legal Sourcing & Analytics Manager plays a crucial role in enabling the team to achieve results through innovation, efficient processes, and support. This multi-disciplinary team comprises specialists in matter pricing, data analytics, and finance operations. Excellence in negotiating arrangements with external counsel is a key focus and vital to the team's and Legal's overall success.

Legal is a positive workplace where our culture of innovation and cooperation drives us to deliver increasingly efficient and cost-effective results in support of the business. We work as one team and are committed to excellence.

What you’ll be doing

As the Legal Sourcing & Analytics Manager, you will leverage your extensive experience in a law firm setting to direct pricing strategies and lead arrangement negotiations with clients. Your background in team management and effective leadership, combined with your ability to contribute individually to high-value projects, will be crucial.

In this role we will be looking to the successful candidate to:

1. Lead a diverse group of legal professionals delivering legal operations support across the organization.
2. Not only lead but actively contribute to the work of the Sourcing & Analytics team, working with lawyers around the world in developing RFP materials, assessing proposals from law firms, developing alternative arrangements, and managing same through the life of a matter.
3. Innovate by proactively evolving and improving on the pricing processes and systems that are in place today, to extend our position as a leader in the industry.
4. Actively look at the services provided and assess where they can be improved, expanded, evolved or removed to deliver ever more efficient, cost-effective and innovative support.
5. Develop metrics and systems to track and report on key aspects of legal operations delivery, and legal department delivery more generally.

What you bring

As the Legal Sourcing & Analytics Manager, you will work closely with and be accountable for delivery of results to the Head of Legal Operations.

An energetic self-starter, you will have:

1. Proven years of experience leading a pricing team in a large law firm.
2. Experience with developing and tracking KPIs for legal teams.
3. Experience in procurement and RFP development, and assessment.
4. Strong team leadership skillset with excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
5. Organizational abilities, with project, program and portfolio leadership skills, capable of setting and delivering on both short-term deliverables, and longer-term goals.
6. Flexible nature and willingness to adapt and take on additional duties as the role evolves.
7. Creative streak, proactively scanning the legal industry to identify new ways to do things, best practices to adopt and generally having an innovation mindset.
8. Proven experience in managing and improving end to end processes and delivering in a complex, global and virtual environment.
9. Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills, with a demonstrated ability to deal with competing priorities and complex issues.
10. Proven ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels in a complex management structure.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

1. Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
2. Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
3. Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
4. Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
5. Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
6. Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
7. Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
8. Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
9. Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, and life experiences to apply.
10. Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in international teams.
11. Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in The United Kingdom

Shell UK remains one of the North Sea’s biggest producers, supplying around 10% of the UK’s total oil and gas needs. But perhaps the most recognisable face of Shell in the UK is our network of over 1,000 Shell-branded service stations.

In the years ahead, as the UK looks to strengthen energy security and deliver its 2050 net-zero goal, Shell UK aims to play a crucial role. We aim to be a major investor in the UK energy system by helping our customers decarbonise with a focus on transport and industry.